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Affinity with 31. conr/rsfa appears in the fascicles of numerous 

 flowers at each node ; the present species is distinct in the velvety 

 leaf-indumentum — a rare feature in this genus. Leaves 6-8 cm. x 

 2'o-3"3 cm., with petiole 1 cm. or sometimes longer. Pedicels 8 mm. 

 to over a centimetre long ; hracteoles obsolete. Calyx-ioheii 2-3 mm. 

 Corolla 5-7 mm. long. Capsule as much as 7 mm. long and 2"5 mm. 

 wide toward the top. 



56. M. coccocYPSELOiDES Wcrnham, in Kew Bull. ii. 64 (1914). 

 Colombia. Sprague 244 ! Furdie ! Linden 982 ! Fusagasuya, 



Hnlton 460 ! Ocaiia to Pamplona, open space, 5500 ft. Kalbreyer 

 697 ! Ibaque, Goudot ! Venezuela. Faji, Moritz ex parte 8396 ! 

 In hbb. Mus. Brit. & Kew. 



A twining shrub, with soft leaves and hairy white flowers. 



57. M. eacemosa Ruiz & Pavon, Fl. Peru & Chili, i. 58, t. 89. 

 f. a (1798). M. mutahilis Persoon, Synops. i. 134 (1805). Nucihea 

 mutahilis Poir., in Lam. Encycl. Meth. Supp. iv. oo (1816). 



Peiiu. In woods, Cuchero & Chinchao, etc., Ruiz. 



I cannot find any plant corresponding with the description and 

 illustration of this species in the British herbaria. Schumann cites as 

 an example a plant collected by Moritz, in Venezuela, ex parte 839! 

 But this is certainly not M. racemosa : the label bears, in Moritz's 

 manuscript, the name that I propose to retain for this species, viz. — 



58. M. mollis Moritz MS. in herbb. Mus. Brit. & Kew. 

 Suffrutex repens scandensque, caule prtesertim ad nodos densiuseule 



pulverulento-puberulo, in novitate densissime induto. Folia inter 

 minora plana membranacea utrinque pubescentia, venis lateralibus 

 paucis, lanceolata ad elliptica acuta acuminata, petiolo brevi dense 

 puberulo ; stipulce brevissime basi vaginantes insuper breviter necnon 

 manifeste acutissime inter petiolos apiculatae. Flores in ramulis 

 brevibus lateralibus dispositi foliosis. Calycis lobi crassi late ovati 

 acuminati accrescentes utrinque pubescentes conspicui tandem sub- 

 foliacei, ovario densissime molle flavo-velutino-villoso. Corolla hypo- 

 crateriformis inter minores tubo extus desuper glabrescente insuper 

 ampliato, lobis oblongis patentlbus utrinque dorso autem densius 

 apicem versus puberulis. Capsula late elli2)soidea flavo-2:)uberula 

 majuscula. 



Venezuela. " Regions of Ericaeae," Buschel ! in herb. Kew. 

 Merida, Moritz s. n. ! ex parte 839! Tovar ; Fendler 587! 



Notable for the conspicuous Cff/ya--lobes, b-^ mm. x 3-4 mm., or 

 even larger, and the dense soft indumentum, especially of the ovaries 

 and young fruits. Leaves 1-'^ cm. xl "3-2 cm. CoroZ/rt-tube nearly 

 1 cm. in length, lobes 5 mm. Capsule I cm. long, 6 mm. wide. 



K. Schumann (Flor. Brasil.) cites several other plants as examples 

 of M. racemosa Rviiz & Pavon. None of them fit either the original 

 description or the ])ublished figure of this species. Together with 

 other examples quoted below, these plants may be arranged us deiscribed 

 in the preceding and the following few species. 



